Small Transfer Pump For Off Grid Water
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- In this video I'm demonstrating our recently purchased Drummond Transfer Pump. I wasn't sure whether or not it would produce adequate water pressure. I was a bit surprised and pleased with it's performance.
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Used it to pump water out of my sailboat. I love it!
I bought one of those pumps today from harbor freight. I pumped aboutn60 feet, some uphill from 2 55 gallon drums to an IBC tote. Ot took approx 20 minutes. So far so good.
Thanks for the tutorial on the pump. We just bought one for water transfer into our RV. My husband was very pleased with your demo! Watching from Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for watching!! Glad to hear the video was helpful.
You may have already looked into this, but in case you haven't, I'm gonna mention it. ( I think comments benefit your channel's analytics, even if they don'y make any sense. LOL) A company called Shurflo makes the pumps that you find in a lot of camping trailers and motor homes. They come in a number of flow rates and pressures and they are on-demand pumps. They turn on when you open your nozzle or faucet and shut down when you close it off, once it builds a certain pressure (45 PSI on the ones that I've used). They also run on 12 volts, which would mean you could take a battery and a small solar panel and run the pump without wasting all the energy that it takes to run that generator and the panel would keep the battery charged. They can even be connected to a small pressure tank like you'd use if you were on well water and have a stored supply of pressurized water. It might not be as useful if you're using it for irrigating a garden or something like that, but it might be something to consider as a separate system for your other water needs.
I have a very similar pump to yours that I use for odd jobs ( emptying toilet tanks and broken dishwashers along with keeping my basement sump empty when the power goes out. I got it at Harbor Freight and it's the same brand, but it runs on 12 volts. It has alligator clips as the connectors. It only pumps 290 GPM and will only lift 40 feet, so it isn't exactly the equal of yours, but mine works great. You could run it off your tractor battery or starter battery in your car, as long as you didn't run it down too low.
One other thing I'll ask, have you ever thought about erecting some storage racks or something like that to put one of your tanks up in the air? You could use your little pump, sometime when you have to run the genny for some other reason anyway, and fill the elevated tank and use the head pressure your miniature water tower generates later when you aren't using the genny. I just seems such a waste to run the generator to power a 1/10 HP pump.
I'll shut up now. Peace, friend.
Good info! Thanks!!
Portable pressurized off grid water. Nice😁
Thanks for watching and commenting!
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Thank you!!
This was the video I have been hoping to see. I have two lots with a large patch of grass burs that come up during the summer but there is no water there to water in preemergent so I have never tried it. I always thought I'd keep up with the mowing and keep it too short for the stickers to come up but every summer the mower quits for a week/I get busy with something else and I go to the lots and there are stickers. I am wanting to get a water tank, car/lawn tractor battery, and a pump like this and put them in my utility trailer and go put out preemergent on the property, and then use the pump with a hose and sprayer to water it in twice a year. I found the equivalent of this pump at TSC and was wondering if it would work, and it looks like it will work fine. I am sure I can now prevent the burrs/stickers from even growing from now on. Thank you.
Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for the view and comment!!
Looks to be a nice little pump.
Wondering how you source the water to fill your large tanks?
Thanks for the vid!
After the fact, I realized I didn’t mention the source of the water in the totes. So in this instance, not totally off-grid as I filled the totes with city water from home and transported them to the farm.
I see a rain water collection system in our future! Also, in desperate times I could pump water from the pond behind our property or from the small stream running across the front corner of our property to fill the totes.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Will this pump self prime? I want to drop a empty hose down to a creek and capture water. It would be difficult for me to prime the siphon side because of a steep bank.
It is considered a self-priming pump. I would still try filling it with some water just prior putting your hose in the creek.
I haven’t used it that way yet, but that has been my intention since I bought it.
Also, if you happen to have a harbor freight store near you, I believe it’s significantly less expensive there.
Good luck. And thanks for watching.
Hi, does it run on 110v circuit? Or maybe a 12v battery?
This one runs on 110v ac. But there are others available that run on 12v dc.
What happens when the nozzle is closed it sound like it's whining, I want to use it for a camp shower and need to be able to shut off the water pressure for a few minutes to save water.
Good question. But I don’t think I’d recommend running it with the flow cut off. Thanks for watching and commenting!
You can do that if you install a bypass loop which allows it to flow the water in a rat race (loop).. The downside is that it can effect the pumps ability to self prime. The way around that is to keep the pump below the bypass loop, and the outlet above the bypass loop, and it should never lose prime…
Thanks for the tip!!
How loud is it? It sounded like it makes a high-pitched noise when you turned it on.
It does have a bit of a whine to it. But it’s not very loud at all.
Hello...I need your guild to hook a cordless hot water heater with that pump.
Does it have an automatic shut off valve inside for if it's still running while you have the hose shut off or does it keep trying to pump and eventually overload and breaks?
eventually overloads and breaks
Could you wash cars with it?
I would think so. The pressure is comparable to my garden hose at home. The volume is adequate, but noticeably less.
Thank you for the response and you help
YW! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Every one of these I've bought have turned to shit after 5-6 uses. Just using to to put water through tankless heater. This one is the very last. Fk Drummond and fk harbor freight.